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Song Mode

Getting Started with the Sequencer

Mix Your Song

The MIX page lets you change the panning and volume levels for the tracks in your song. Needless to say, this is one of the most important steps in the completion of your song production, and potentially one of the most creative. This example will keep things simple by showing you how to change the volume level of one of your instruments. We’ll also take a quick look at the track mute feature.

1.Press the MIXER soft button to bring up the MIX page.

The icons that represent pan-position knobs and volume-level faders resemble the controls on a traditional mixing board. Manipulating them should be quite intuitive. Simply position the cursor over a pan position knob or volume level fader, then turn the Alpha Wheel to set the level you want. On keyboard models, the sliders control the volume of the current bank of channels (as indicated by the line near the bottom of the display). In the diagram below, the sliders would control the volume on Channels 1–8.

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Track 3 Volume Level Fader

For example, suppose you want to turn down the organ on Track 3:

2.Use the Right or Left cursor button to position the cursor over Track 3’s volume level fader on the MIX page.

Although the tracks aren’t numbered on the MIX page, they’re laid out logically: left-to- right, from 1 through 16 consecutively. Track 3, then, is the third track from the left.

3.Use the Alpha Wheel to turn down the volume of the track by changing the position of the volume slider.

4.Press the Keep soft button and save the change.

Now when you play back the song, Track 3’s volume starts playing at the newly set level.

You can also record real-time volume and pan changes from the MIX page or enter numeric values for these parameters on the MAIN page.

Using the Mode Buttons to Mute a Track

Finally, we’ll take a quick look at the track mute feature, which lets you use the K2661’s mode buttons to mute individual tracks. This can be invaluable during mixdown.

You may have noticed a horizontal line underneath the sliders for Tracks 1 through 8 on the MIX page. As the illustration below shows, this is the “Quick Mute Track Bank Indicator,” showing which bank of eight tracks will respond to the eight track-mute buttons. The eight mode buttons

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